Wayne Harrison is a former professional player and has been a highly qualified professional coach for many years. He has held the position of Academy Director at Blackpool Professional Football Club in England and at Al Ain Professional Football Club in the UAE. Wayne has produced more than 30 books with the Soccer Awareness program and has partnered with Amplified Soccer to reproduce these books with updated content, layout and more. Each eBook is a professionally produced pdf that is available for instant download. We will be releasing each book individually as it becomes available so check back weekly.

Developing Players with Rondos Using the Soccer Awareness Philosophy

Developing Players with Rondos Using the Soccer Awareness Philosophy

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This 222 page eBook explores the use of rondos in youth soccer. Rondos are a great way to prepare players for the game situations and especially the fast decision making needed within the game. I have included as a way to work into these game situations many Rondo ideas that I feel are great foundation builders for players learning to combine and play together. I have stayed with simplistic ideas that all levels of players can try and be successful at. It is up to each coach to work out how to make it work for their players.

Though the foundation of the basic rondo stays the same; we explore different ways to present it. It can be made easier or more difficult based on the number of touches players are allowed, for example, so it benefits ALL players who practice with them; also the size of area they play within can be manipulated to change the challenge.

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Rondos Using the Soccer Awareness Philosophy of Player Development

Pep Guardiola quoted this about rondos at Barcelona: “What I learnt here is everything starts with the ball and ends with the ball. Sometimes we forget that it’s a game of 11 v 11 with ONE BALL. We try to keep this ball, we try to play with this ball, we try to make everything with the ball. This is what we learn when we start as children there.”

What is Soccer Awareness?

“The ultimate goal in coaching is helping each player develop his or her talents and abilities to the fullest. With this in mind, I created this Unique Soccer Awareness philosophy of developmental coaching and training. It simply means training the mind before the body.” - Wayne Harrison

We will show the link between Soccer Awareness and what rondos teach in this book.

The link between our Soccer Awareness Continuums of Development Model and using Rondos to highlight the skills taught in them

The following is a guide as to what goes on in a players head, before, during and after receiving the ball. All these thoughts processes translate into physical actions on the field. Many decisions are made before the player even gets the ball, this is the essence of Soccer Awareness teaching and shown in the Continuums model.

When you assess what Rondos teach you will see this continuum highlights the very same actions learnt. Rondos are ideal training for this “thinking process” because everything has to be done at pace with little time to think and assess so players are forced to make very quick decisions which in turn forces them to think AHEAD of the ball before they receive it.

Soccer Awareness training and Rondos go hand in hand in their education of players.

Contents

Soccer Awareness 4 v 0 Rondo and unlimited touches

Soccer Awareness 4 v 1 Rondo (Unlimited touches)

Soccer Awareness 5 v 2 Rondos using (1 and 2 touches)

3 v 1 Soccer Awareness Rondos using Two touches

Soccer Awareness Sliding Rondos using one and two touches (or more if needed) No player movement off the ball

Soccer Awareness Sliding Rondos every player moving off the ball

Passing Rondos always to the central player in a diamond shape for 5 players

Different colored pinnies to teach the “look and think” Use cones as the starting points